We can regard our life as a uselessly disturbing episode in the blissful repose of nothingness.
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUERA high degree of intellect tends to make a man unsocial.
More Arthur Schopenhauer Quotes
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Compassion is the basis of morality.
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He who writes carelessly confesses thereby at the very outset that he does not attach much importance to his own thoughts.
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Treat a work of art like a prince; let it speak to you first.
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A man can be himself only so long as he is alone; and if he does not love solitude, he will not love freedom; for it is only when he is alone that he is really free.
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To be alone is the fate of all great minds – a fate deplored at times, but still always chosen as the less grievous of two evils.
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Faith is like love: it does not let itself be forced.
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Men are the devils of the earth, and the animals are the tormented souls.
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Fate shuffles the cards and we play.
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Genius lives only one story above the madness.
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No rose without a thorn but many a thorn without a rose.
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A sense of humor is the only divine quality of man.
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We seldom speak of what we have but often of what we lack.
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Mostly it is a loss that teaches us about the worth of things.
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Every parting gives a foretaste of death, every reunion a hint of the resurrection.
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Life is short and truth works far and lives long: let us speak the truth.
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